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  • 12:00 AM
  • BBC World Service delivers breaking news and information programming around the world, in English and 42 other language services, on radio, TV and digital.

  • 05:00 AM
  • Your morning companion from NPR and the WNYC Newsroom, with world news, local features, and weather updates.

  • 09:00 AM
  • BBC World Service delivers breaking news and information programming around the world, in English and 42 other language services, on radio, TV and digital.

  • 10:00 AM
  • Gross Distorted Product?

    The latest on the economy; recent Congressional milestones; battling bedbugs; next steps for climate legislation; blood donation by gay men; and New York accents.

  • 12:00 PM
  • Beauty and the Beast

    Guest host Julie Burstein fills in for Leonard Lopate. We'll look into the state of America's largest tech company: the omnipresent Google. Then, Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady, directors of the HBO documentary “12th & Delaware,” discuss what’s going on on the front lines of the abortion rights battle. Plus, Rick Moody talks about his ninth book, The Four Fingers of Death. Later, we’ll examine just what kinds of chemicals and toxins are found in everyday cosmetics like self-tanners, shampoos, and face creams.

  • 02:00 PM
  • Whistle While You Work

    Studies suggest that music can increase productivity, but some offices are enforcing silence with bans on computer speakers and iPods. Today: the clash over music in the workplace. Later: percussionist Zakir Hussain has played with India’s greatest musicians, starred in movies and launched a music label. He will play live in our studio. This is a repeat edition of Soundcheck.

  • 03:00 PM
    Special Programming
     
     
  • 04:00 PM
  • A wrap-up of the day’s news, with features and interviews about the latest developments in New York City and around the world, from NPR and the WNYC newsroom.

  • 06:30 PM
  • Marketplace is not only about money and business, but about people, local economies and the world — and what it all means to us.

  • 07:00 PM
  • A wrap-up of the day’s news, with features and interviews about the latest developments in New York City and around the world, from NPR and the WNYC newsroom.

  • 08:00 PM
  • A hybrid of a talk program and a newsmagazine, On Point puts each day's news into context and provides a lively forum for discussion and debate.

  • 09:00 PM
  • Tell Me More focuses on the way we live, intersect and collide in a culturally diverse world. Capturing the headlines, issues and pleasures relevant to multicultural life in America, the daily one-hour series is hosted by award-winning journalist Michel Martin. Tell Me More marks Martin's first role in hosting a daily program. She views it as an opportunity to focus on the stories, experiences, ideas and people important in contemporary life but often not heard.

  • 10:00 PM
  • Whistle While You Work

    Studies suggest that music can increase productivity, but some offices are enforcing silence with bans on computer speakers and iPods. Today: the clash over music in the workplace. Later: percussionist Zakir Hussain has played with India’s greatest musicians, starred in movies and launched a music label. He will play live in our studio. This is a repeat edition of Soundcheck.

  • 11:00 PM
  • #2691: Roma and Romanian Roots

    Hear some frenzied Romanian gypsy punk from the New York-based Luminescent Orchestrii on this edition of New Sounds.  Not willing to stop there, they can also rock the klezmer, bust out hip-hop beats and call upon Appalachian fiddle as well.